tax credits!!!!!!!!!!

[kwak zzr]

anyone here get tax credits? anyone know anything about tax credits?
i fill the form's in they send me accurate to the number on my p60 and have just had a loverly letter from them saying YOU OWE US £1700!!!!!
now i hate debt !! and it makes me feel ill to know that i have done everything right and still the inland revenue/tax credits have created this dept for me.
what can you do? they just wont listen on the fone?
a very pi$$ed off
kwak zzr!! :cry:

[mysteryjimbo]

Very common complaint and plastered all of the news. They are crap and overpay regularly.

EDIT: You can pretty much do nothing except not spend it all next time. They overpaid us by £600 and are reclaiming it over the next couple of years through smaller payments.

[timwilky]

Poor you, You try to use tax credits to get something out of Gordon. How nieve.


These days, I just give. What incentive is there for being honest and hard working. 40% tax, extra added to my NI payments, stealth taxes, pension fund raided, Rates and utility bill inflation well out of sync with salary. New labour help the working man?.. NFC Help themselves morelike

[Cloggsy]

I'm still paying back a shed load of overpayment :roll:

Useless b'stards :evil:

[Frogette]

Since last year I've lost
1. My job
2. My car
3. My house
4. The paltry tax credits we were getting cos they claim we earn too much

I filled in all the forms correctly and for my troubles just get kicked inthe face. In the past 7 years I have paid out over £70k in tax not to mention the higher rate NI and my scumbag ex husband gets benefits while we starve!! Can't claim income based JSA (cos my other half earns too much), income support (cos my OH works) and yet the government and his ex wife takes all our money.
I hate the current government, maybe they would like to feed and clothe my kids when it finally all goes wrong and we end up homeless too. :evil:

OK, gonna crawl back under my stone now.

[kwak zzr]

kind of glad i'm not on my own, have you noticed that the nice people on the other end of the phone(at tax credits) know less than yourself. criminal it is!!
last week i had no dept now ive got nearly 2k :shock:

[mysteryjimbo]

Since last year I've lost
1. My job
2. My car
3. My house
4. The paltry tax credits we were getting cos they claim we earn too much

I filled in all the forms correctly and for my troubles just get kicked inthe face. In the past 7 years I have paid out over £70k in tax not to mention the higher rate NI and my scumbag ex husband gets benefits while we starve!! Can't claim income based JSA (cos my other half earns too much), income support (cos my OH works) and yet the government and his ex wife takes all our money.
I hate the current government, maybe they would like to feed and clothe my kids when it finally all goes wrong and we end up homeless too. :evil:

OK, gonna crawl back under my stone now.

I think you should blame the lack of equality like the news is right now......its his fault for being male :lol:

[kwak zzr]

sorry to hear that Frogette, i am thinking simalir to you about this goverment.

[Anonymous]

i get tax credits both child and working and I was underpaid last year by £900 not that I knew I was getting underpaid, so next few months getting an additional £300 so i love tax credits.

i get more in tax credits than i do in wages, which is probably just as well or me and kids would be starving while ex hubby goes gliding etc at weekends, living life to the full.

but on a high note divorce should be final in about 6 weeks woohoo :lol:

[kwak zzr]

nice to hear a sucsess story of tax credits! but beware they aint ball'sd up and ask you to pay it back next year.

[mysteryjimbo]

i get tax credits both child and working and I was underpaid last year by £900 not that I knew I was getting underpaid, so next few months getting an additional £300 so i love tax credits.

i get more in tax credits than i do in wages, which is probably just as well or me and kids would be starving while ex hubby goes gliding etc at weekends, living life to the full.

but on a high note divorce should be final in about 6 weeks woohoo :lol:

It could so easily be the other way round next year.....

[T0mm0]

Hi Kwak,

I'm in a similar situation as yourself. Filled in the forms as requested, the other month received a letter stating I owe them £450. This letter was followed by another claiming £267.
Apparantly they overpaid us £450 during the 2004 period and then overpaid us £267 again in 2005. Pretty shambolic if you ask me, surely if you've highlighted a family / person as being overpaid, there should be measures in place to not over pay them the following year.
I've asked them for a breakdown as to how they calculate these amounts. Been waiting now for some 3 months, despite regular phone calls.

One thing I know, they can have it back in dribs and drabs.

Cheers
T0mm0

[kwak zzr]

i'm not very happy at all, i am waiting for a appeal form at the moment but am not holding my breath.

[Ceri JC]

It's like insurance quotes; they just make it up as they go along. :lol:

[embee]

Tax Credits? What the **** does Tax Credits mean?

I'm one of the folks who just pay out, I have a few shares which when a dividend is paid, I get a "Tax Credit" note, which is a document which says how much tax I'm credited within having paid before I get the net dividend after tax.

That's what Tax Credit is. It's what I pay to the Government.

Who in hell decided that a "benefit" should be called a Tax Credit, like it's some sort of aknowledgement of generosity or financial obligation.

If it's a benefit, just call it a benefit for ***'s sake.

:rant:

PS sorry , don't mean to offend anyone in a situation where you need benefit, but I just can't stand the poncy political correctness.

.....and as for the Government and the Benefit system and the CSA fiasco, couldn't organise a p***-up in a brewery, bunch of total losers. Incompetence top to bottom.

Phew, that's better :wink:

[kwak zzr]

i paid my taxes ect for years too with nothing coming back so i know how you feel, but now i do get the tax credits it is a help < it paid for my bike! just wish they could sort it out right!

[timwilky]

Q. Why do people get tax credits

A. Because by taxing people it puts thier income below that required to maintain an acceptable standard of living. so give them some tax back.


To me this is totally wrong. Raise the tax thresholds to what is the acceptable minimum for all. I would suggest the starting point for any taxation should be £15,000 afterall they say students can't afford to repay their loans on a salary less than that. So how can anyone afford to pay tax on less than that.

and get rid of stupid bands. I pay tax at 40% on a portion of my income. Why because I earn more. Why should I pay a greater percentage to the revenue than the next guy. Every time I get an "inflation" rise 40% of that goes yet the next guy only pays 23% of his extra money to the revenue.

[kwak zzr]

you will never win with the tax system, its just legalized robbery.